Barnard is a version of the surname Bernard, which is a
French and
West Germanic masculine given name and surname. The surname means as tough as a bear, Bar(Bear)+nard/hard(hardy/tough)
People
Some of the people bearing the surname Barnard in England are thought to have arrived after the time of the
Norman Conquest (1066), Changing their surnames from
Bernard to Barnard. Some of whom, it has been suggested, can be traced back to Hugo Bernard. Some of the Barnard family in England may have been
Huguenots[1] who fled from the Atlantic coast region of
Francecirca 1685 (the time of the
revocation of the edict of Nantes) or earlier than that date.[2] By contrast, the Barnard family in
Holland (the western provinces of the Netherlands) can be definitively traced back to circa 1751 (Izaak Barnard)[3] of
Scheveningen.The surname Barnard is also found in
South Africa among the
Afrikaner community. An example of this is
Christiaan Barnard, A South African
Cardiac Surgeon who performed the first Successful Heart Transplant.The surname is Also found in
Australia and
North America because of mostly
UK and
Huguenot immigration from Europe. Other families bearing or subsequently adopting the surname Barnard arrived as Jewish immigrants from continental Europe after 1656 [4] and are well documented.[5][6] Some of the latter branch are descendants of Rabbi Daniel Barnard of Canterbury, with recorded descendants around
London,[7][8]Chatham,
Dartford,
Kingston upon Hull,[9]Stockton-on-Tees,[10]Bournemouth,[11]Ipswich,
Norwich and in
Australia.
Surname
In
England the surname is most commonly found in Greater London and the South Eastern counties (most common occurrences are in Essex, East Sussex, Kent and Suffolk). And in the
United States of America it is most commonly found in
California,
Texas,
Florida, and
New York. It is also found in
France,
Belgium,
Canada,
The Netherlands,
South Africa,
Australia, and occasionally in
Germany.
The first syllable of the name derives from
bear; Bär or Baer in German. corresponding family names are BAER, BER, BERR, BEHR, BERNHARDT, BERNARD (in France).[12]
List of people with the surname
Alfred Barnard (1837–1918), British brewing and distilling historian
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